A less presumptuous name.

Since my last post here, I have finished The Lord of the Rings. I'm now rereading Candide and enjoying it even more the second time through.

I'm not sure what my results have been in the past, but I feel like I'm still in the same quadrant. Also, I feel like many of my answers should be taken with a grain of salt - tests that have agree/disagree scales for absolute statements tend to leave me wanting to debate the finer points of many issues.

Left/Right: -4.12

Social: -5.38

Dear King Phillip, Come Out For Goodness Sake.

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I wonder, with people talking about frequency of taking the test...

Could the test indicate whether taking the test again, and if so, how frequently, would be beneficial?

In that vein, I see a possible problem with this, in terms of a feedback loop. Suppose an individual predisposed to anxiety takes the test and is told about their predisposition. That sort of information could trigger anxiety. Knowing about the ability of the test to measure their anxiety, the individual may constantly worry about improving test results, actually worsening their anxiety.

Just a thought.

I would hesitate. Sometimes I don't want to know everything about me. I know that I have flaws and weaknesses, and I'm okay with that. But I don't really want a formalized report telling me about them.

I might take the test out of pure curiosity, but I would keep the results secret and deny having taken the test.

I love the right hand rule. Sometimes, though, I find it inconvenient for a given orientation, so I insert a negative sign into a convenient term and use my left hand.

For cardinal directions, I remember back in elementary school learning Never Eat Soggy Worm/Waffles.

Alo's reference to learning an instrument reminds me of an odd mnemonic that I learned under such circumstances. My first instructor was teaching me the order of flats and sharps. Flats run as B E A D G C F. Sharps run the opposite. I still remember the flat order as "bead juicyfruit".

I like to be exact in my conversions. One inch is exactly 2.54 cm. All the other approximations are fine, but I don't bother to memorize other exact conversions.

I can only remember inches and centimeters, so if I want to work with larger units, I have to scale down and then back up.

in third person?

Wait. Hold on a second. You play Skyrim in third-person? That's awful.

I'd like to say that my activity has decreased because real life has gotten in the way. That's true in so far as I don't really play the games anymore. But I still lurk the forums several times a day. I just end up deleting half of my posts halfway in because I realize that my comment is utterly pointless and non-productive.

Redundant communication is inefficient, therefore your statement is inefficient. Also, you repeated the word "out". You clearly need more work on this. I can tutor you for only 3 payments of US $199.99.

There's a term for a word that can have two opposing meanings: contranym. Making literally into a contranym is literally the dumbest thing ever.

EDIT: I forgot how much it stings to be sniped.

If you think being in Alaska makes you safe from Alo, you're so hopelessly wrong.

I have two brothers. One is planning to marry a girl he met in middle school. The other is engaged to a girl he met through an online dating site after he graduated from college. Both are very happy with their relationships. So while there may be higher barriers after college, it's totally possible, and in fact common, to find a partner.

Such watches operate by pure sorcery. I still have a (broken) watch that requires winding daily.

I know I'm part of the minority, but I enjoy wearing a watch. In fact, I prefer analog watch faces. DST is a pain for me twice a year.

All subsequent Geneforge games were being developed on the second continent. When that continent disappeared, so too did games following G5.

Why is Aran on a nostalgia list?

Post here for a +1

No. I refuse to accept your handouts. But I will congratulate you on your time well misspent.

Out of curiosity, why did you put the word science in quotes?

Well, the class is History of Science, Culture, and Society in Western Civilization, so it's a lot more than just the science. It's just that we're coving the scientific revolution this quarter, so that's the focus. Also, the concept of science during that time was so different from what we think of as science now that I hesitate to use the word without some demarkation of difference.

You learn about the same in science classes whether you have a good teacher or a bad one.

While I suppose it's true that you're learning the same science in a given class, how well you learn it, and indeed whether you learn it at all, has a lot to do with the teacher.

There has been instances when simple science has changed peoples ideology, and thus changed their course through history. For example, early observational astronomy not only proved that the known universe didn't orbit Earth, but that the Earth was round. That combined with it being able to be used as a form of navigation, from what I've noticed, helped spark an age of exploration.

Just a pet peeve here, but people have known that the Earth was round since the times of ancient Greece and Egypt. In fact, they knew the diameter of the Earth with pretty good accuracy. This information didn't disappear after the fall of those cultures, either. Also, the transition from geocentricity to heliocentricity wasn't nearly as smooth and painless as people think.

Sorry if I'm pedantic, but I'm in the middle of a class on the history of "science" during the scientific revolution.

I'm on book 4 of The Lord of the Rings. I'm doing much better this attempt than my first time, where I got to about chapter 4.

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Have you heard of Dex fighters?

I feel obliged to post in this thread for reasons that I cannot explain.

Organic Chemistry, Physics E&M, Intro to Music Analysis and Criticism, and the History of Science, Culture, and Society (1450-1750).